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Ask HN: What are you working on tonight?
What's everybody working on right now? I'll start:
I'm putting together a quick custom todo list app to organize my main project, because I'm not happy with the vanilla one in Basecamp.
What about you?
- pg 17y agoImproving HN's performance. Voting is horribly expensive. That wasn't a problem originally but it's starting to become one now that there are so many users.
- dzlobin 17y agohow many users are we up to?
- pg 17y ago11492 accounts, many of them inactive of course. There are more users than that, because many users lurk for a while before creating accounts. We now get around 45k unique visitors on weekdays.
- dzlobin 17y agoawesome, out of curiosity, what kind of server is HN running on? edit: guy below me who maxed out the thread, server not language
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- idoh 17y agoIt's a server written in arc.
- jaydub 17y agoas of ~a year ago: "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118
- pg 17y agoIt's still that one. We were starting to spend too much time gcing once everything got lazily loaded, but a few days ago I started throwing stuff out of memory and now it looks like we've got performance back into the tolerable range. http://hnstatus.net/ http://hnstatus.net/
- Timothee 17y agoI feel like upvoting your comment because that sounds interesting and concerning everyone here, but I don't want to be part of the problem!
- cubicle67 17y agoYou're not. You're helping him test his improvements
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoGot an email from Microsoft -- I discovered a new bug in their F# compiler that breaks my startup app. I'm the first to find this fairly significant bug. I should be so proud. So now I'm deciding how best to hack up my code to get around the bug. Can't say I'm very happy about where I am, but I'll get it fixed soon enough. It's very cool being on the cutting edge, as long as you don't bleed too much!
- kolosy 17y agoooh... what bug? and are you doing f# for web or just f#?
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoI was going to blog about it tomorrow (never ruin a good chance to blog) Basically for some reason F# barfs on large types, say types with 500 fields in them. I think the breaking point is 300 or so. There's also another bug that I'll save for the blog entry. Microsoft was responsive as hell -- I had an email response within minutes and the engineer and I were emailing back and forth all afternoon. I was very impressed. The F# dev guys rock, even though I'm not happy at all with having a broken app.
- kolosy 17y agoyeah - that's been my experience too. the few times i've dealt with them, they've been back at me in hours tops. hopefully that'll continue despite them hitting RC
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoThe odd thing was that the code was working in 2010Beta, but fell completely apart in 2010RC. It was a case of upgrading the IDE and having my app crash and burn. First thing we did was up the stack size, but no matter how big we made the stack, it didn't work.
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- tdupree 17y agoWorking on a new website for a client to help pay for the bootstrapping of my own startup. Getting to mess around with a custom mootools carousel with some nice UX stuff goin on.
- jsonscripter 17y agoI'm working on a Flash game using Flixel for a contest on Newgrounds. There haven't been many submissions so I'm basically just trying to get it done by the deadline :)
- plinkplonk 17y agoReviewing the more esoteric Category Theory bits of Haskell. A (commercial) Haskell + C project kicks off on March 4th. I am looking forward to my first major project in Haskell but it will be hectic once it starts and I won't have too much time for lazing around or reading :-(. Enjoying the last few days of peace :-)
- ohwaitnvm 17y agoI finished up a lexical analyzer I was writing in Ruby for a pascal variant we're using throughout the semester in my Compilers class. Now it's done and submitted, so time to relax and have a cup of tea before I start considering writing the parser.
- chrisa 17y agoCreating marketing brochures with html, so that I can use css to create a consistent feel across all of them. There's probably a much better way to do this, but I need them for next week. To do it, I'm using webkit2png to make a png from the html page, and prawn to automatically put the png into a pdf. The whole thing is 6 lines of ruby (which uses python, then prawn), and it's working well so far, but I've had to fuss with the scaling so that it prints without pixelating.
- awt 17y agoAdobe Fireworks might be a good tool for you.
- sailormoon 17y agoIf we're going to be using Adobe apps, I would have thought InDesign would be more suitable.
- mrfish 17y agoTrying to catch up on way too much Elance work while watching the Olympics... oh and watching Lost that I missed the other day.
- boyter 17y agoRight now... adding some features to an internal application at work in C# (im at work). Later tonight though, I should be preparing for my hiking trip tomorrow, and possibly working on some RSS indexing that someone I know wants for their website.
- shib71 17y agoA website for people to post latin texts, collaboratively annotate them with grammer information, and read both.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoWhat's the site? I have a couple of latin grad student friends that would probably enjoy that.
- shib71 17y agoIt's not in any state for public use yet. The UI is very buggy, and the annotation system doesn't support more than the latin equivalent of "See Spot Run".
- MikeMacMan 17y agoDrinking...
- midnightmonster 17y ago...water.
- hajrice 17y agolipton green tea
- tcarnell 17y agoSpanish beer
- marvin 17y agoI'm trying to get laid, actually. And failing thus far :/
- amackera 17y agoStudying for a Computer Architecture mid-term on Tuesday. I got to program a little bit of a RESTful API for a big school project earlier today though, so the day isn't a total loss.
- jdminhbg 17y agoUsing CouchDB to set up various payment methods for a personal project. The schemaless stuff is great.
- hikari17 17y agoTrying to get the video done for our YC app. We're seriously bad at saying anything cool or interesting on camera... all we can do so far is laugh at each other. :)
- icey 17y agoGive yourself a 15 minute deadline. Take whatever video is the best when 15 minutes are up.
- nfnaaron 17y agoI'm working on initialization scripts for my VPS: automatically taking it from newborn to installed infrastructure and security settings. And a glass of bourbon.
- techiferous 17y agoLinode StackScripts?
- nfnaaron 17y agosimpler, just # do this # do this # do this. On slice. May do something like StackScripts later.
- njl 17y agoPutting the finishing touches on the app I wrote this week, a co-founder finder. I also got a Droid this afternoon, so I've been having a hard time avoiding the distracting shiny, shiny new toy.
- tcarnell 17y agocool - I bought the domain 'FounderStar.com' with the intention of building a site like this. but at the moment I'm too busy with other sites. If you're interested in the domain let me know - either way, I'd be happy to give input or try out anything you deploy...
- vsync 17y agoMake sure you test the voice quality when you speak into the microphone: https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/16215?start=630&tstart=0#115129 https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/16215?start=630...
- lotharbot 17y agoPlaying Starcraft with my wife, exploring a new tactic, inspired by the discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150669 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150669 And taking care of my 2-month-old.
- lawrencegs 17y agoaw that's awesome. your baby must be asleep now :)
- alanthonyc 17y agoDeploying a tiny, tiny app onto a public server...
- lawrencegs 17y agonot a virus, I hope
- kolosy 17y agothe same thing we do every night, pinky... plotting to take over the world... this time with a shivaplug.
- pasbesoin 17y agoMaybe the upcoming revision will tip the balance. ;-)
- oomkiller 17y agoTrying to figure out how to query the UMLS metathesaurus's WebService (Soap 1.2) API using Ruby. Not having much luck :(
- thaumaturgy 17y agoSleeping, I hope. I haven't slept a full night for a while. G'night.
- icey 17y agoAlternately learning twisted and writing software
- awt 17y agoZumoDrive.
- lawrencegs 17y agoworking on my future...
- patio11 17y agoTonight? Nothing aside from routine email. I need a mental health day. Saturday? Nothing aside from routine email. 10 hours of day job followed by going out with friends to karaoke. Sunday: Church, gym, minimum viable achievement system in Rails (was supposed to happen last Sunday but I broke site -- scratch one work day), A/B tests incorporating it, deploy live, blog post about solo founderhood.
- brandon 17y agoPlaying with bottle.py and Twilio
- ConceptDog 17y agoFinishing up a presentation for code show and tell at work tomorrow.
- zackham 17y agoWorking on a JSON stream parser in AS3, reading data with flash.net.URLStream, for loading up GPS data progressively. The JSON for a ride like this (http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2000 http://ridewithgps.com/trips/2000) is about 300k, and I think it will look much cooler if it draws as it downloads.
- windsurfer 17y agoThis sounds very interesting. Will it be open source?
- midnightmonster 17y agoDocumentation. Or if my eyeballs start falling out from that, a mass mailing engine in PHP for use on commodity-type PHP hosting. (For non-evil purposes, I promise.)
- brianr 17y agobug fixin'
- zweinz 17y agoWriting an iPhone app / webapp for givingturtle.org to release before SXSW. For that matter, for anyone looking for something worthwhile to spend a few hours on, let me know...
- houseabsolute 17y agoTrying to find a vt100 emulator for lisp . . . not working out so great. Or is it? I just remembered emacs had one . . . reading the source code now . . . god help me.
- Todd 17y agoWorking on photo upload in a new web app I'm working on. It spawns ImageMagick to do the conversion into multiple photos of different sizes. I had doubts about this until I read that it's the technique Flickr uses.
- wendroid 17y agoHere's something you might find interesting Gamma error in picture scaling http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/gamma.html
- noodle 17y agogetting over some kind of sickness (generic cold, perhaps, but it hit hard) and working on setting up my new 55g saltwater reef aquarium. hooray hobbies
- JeffJenkins 17y agoMaking my current project -- a hierarchical outliner -- support multiple documents and user accounts
- oscardelben 17y agoIt's 6.16 am now, and yesterday night I went to bed early so I could work on my projects this morning. So far I've written a guest post for my blog (since 5 am) and I'll now work on the backend of a bog engine I wrote myself in rails. I'll probably do many other things before 9 am where I'll start my day-work.
- pplante 17y agoI scratched an itch today while collecting research materials. I had trouble keeping track of all the pages I was referencing, quotes I liked, etc. So I made an app and then open sourced it: http://github.com/pplante/yourcached.info http://github.com/pplante/yourcached.info Not totally finished yet. Waiting on DNS to resolve so I can add FBConnect to it and spread the word. I only spent 4 hours on this so far. So it wasn't a complete distraction from what I needed to do...not yet at least!
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- pplante 17y agoOooops, forgot the screenshot: http://grab.by/2GVy http://grab.by/2GVy
- jonah 17y agoMerging the code I wrote on the road last week with the main tree on the dev box.
- sumeeta 17y agoBeer.
- dazzla 17y agoDebating adding the deals from my iDealyzer iPhone/Android apps to the supporting website hoping it will help SEO.
- benologist 17y agoI'm localising the latest Flash game I sold, I was fortunate enough to get a good price and a great buyer on it. It's a ton of work setting up their multilingual and branding requirements but I have to get it done tonight, I got bogged down on my little startup (http://www.swfstats.com/ http://www.swfstats.com/) all week and next week I'm off to San Francisco for the Flash Gaming Summit so that really only leaves today and worst case scenario some of tomorrow to get this sorted out. : ) This is my game: http://www.flashgamelicense.com/screenshots/ss_8ih6r76u9701.jpg http://www.flashgamelicense.com/screenshots/ss_8ih6r76u9701.... 11:23pm
- benologist 17y ago2:30am and dare I say it .... progress!
- _neil 17y agoJust had dinner with my girlfriend. Now finishing up this months pro-bono work to clear my plate for next month.
- abi 17y agoWorking on my awesome blogging software. Here's the gorgeous coming soon page: http://www.heyreverie.com http://www.heyreverie.com. Email me if you're frustrated with Wordpress, Tumblr, Posterous, etc. and I'd love to have you test my site before I make it public.
- dannytatom 17y agoI thought you were being sarcastic, but that is indeed gorgeous.
- abi 17y agoThank you! Took a lot of time and work. And the landing page is pure art, serves no purpose whatsoever. Still a lot of fun.
- nitrogen 17y agoNice artwork on the landing page!
- kylebragger 17y agoemail you where? i'm interested in testing it out.
- abi 17y agoabii @ stanford.edu
- bmelton 17y agoI have absolutely no idea what the app will look like, but that landing page is absolutely drop dead gorgeous.
- Pistos2 17y agoIf for some reason you need a theme song: http://blog.purepistos.net/index.php/2009/03/18/debussy-reverie/ http://blog.purepistos.net/index.php/2009/03/18/debussy-reve... :)
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- marltod 17y agoMW2
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- paraschopra 17y agoWorking to get one step closer to nirvana :)
- chadaustin 17y agoGutting ADODB from the IMVU website to eliminate pointless data conversions and several hundred microseconds from each cached query. I love being able to refactor the database layer, relying on automated tests to prevent me from taking down the site.
- samratjp 17y agowriting a SGML parser for a search engine :-P
- gipsygipsy 17y agoDeployed a small app to appengine , to send voice messages via IM using twilio. Mainly to send my wife important messages without having to dial from work phone.
- dangoldin 17y agoTrying to learn Django by coding up a new project and working on an existing PHP site.
- lambdom 17y agoStudying IA for my exam tomorrow. Fortunately, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition)" is a great book. (I said fortunately because I need to read half of it tonight - I`m half done).
- dwwoelfel 17y agoDrawing Feynman diagrams for my Modern Physics class. Here's the link to the assignment if you want to join in the fun: http://phys309.physics.tamu.edu/PA5.pdf http://phys309.physics.tamu.edu/PA5.pdf Thanks HN for the great timing on this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150224 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1150224
- devink 17y agoI'm writing a Bit Error Rate simulator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_error_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_error_rate
- dca 17y agoTronBot
- cullenking 17y agoFinishing up final negotiations on a licensing deal for some of the mapping functionality on ridewithgps.com -- original lawyerspeak in the agreement had too stiff of a non-compete. Also, put up an issues page for users to publicly register feature requests and bugs, and then comment and vote on them. The idea is that we get alot of duplicate feature requests and reports of errata that take alot of time to personally respond to. By letting users see something is already registered, they can just upvote it and we have one less person to directly contact.
- pantsd 17y agoI'm working on my "day" job. Ask this again on the weekend :p
- jcmarquezh 17y agoI am fixing JMathPlot exception so that we can use it for my graduation project (brazos.cs.tcu.edu) Those 3D graphics will look really good !!!
- jbyers 17y agoAggregating http log data (request timing, custom fields) in redis. To be open-sourced.
- robdor 17y agoHacking on a GitHub client for Palm's webOS. http://robmerrell.github.com/gitopotamus/ http://robmerrell.github.com/gitopotamus/
- frisco 17y agoWorking on a Clojure client for Facebook: http://www.github.com/myfit/clj-facebook/ http://www.github.com/myfit/clj-facebook/
- sulistyo 17y agostarring at my phone
- techiferous 17y agoHelping a friend start a business.
- jashmenn 17y agoListening to jazz, hacking on an iPhone game.
- mahmud 17y agoSOAP, WS-BPEL, and supply-chain modeling in Common Lisp :-/
- jcrocholl 17y agoMy interactive search engine for short available domains: http://www.nxdom.com/ http://www.nxdom.com/ I'm working to bring the advanced weighted sort order back, but optional so that new users can play with the simple sort order until they understand what it does. Work in progress is here, and full source code: http://master.latest.scoretool.appspot.com/ http://master.latest.scoretool.appspot.com/ http://github.com/jcrocholl/nxdom http://github.com/jcrocholl/nxdom My 2-year-old son doesn't want to go to sleep yet, so he's climbing around on me while I write this.
- dzlobin 17y agoFWIW, On Ubuntu/Chrome, the 'find available domains, starts with and ends with' lines are all on top of each other.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- jcrocholl 17y agoThank you, I see what you mean. The headline wraps because the font is too wide on Ubuntu (in Firefox too), hope to fix it soon.
- AlecM 17y agoVery, very cool app. Nice job.
- tcarnell 17y agonxdom - awesome!
- rozim 17y agoMVP on GAE. Minimum Viable Product on Google App Engine.
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoThat's so GAE.
- megaduck 17y agoI know you meant it as a joke, and it is indeed clever. However, usage of 'gay' as a pejorative is kind of offensive to some of us. Please be careful with your puns. Edit: Seriously, guys, I'm trying to be as civil as possible here. What's with the downvotes?
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- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoCivility has nothing to do with it. It was a not-so-clever pun. I wasn't actually using it as a pejorative. That should be painfully obvious.
- Semiapies 17y agoIt was a pun on a pejorative use of the word - if you disagree, look up "pejorative". At the risk of seeming "PC" to oversensitive folks, using social identities as pejoratives is inherently insulting; you're associating their racial/sexual/etc. identity with something undesirable, even if you don't think of it as a slur. "Gay" to mean stupid or annoying is of a piece with terms like "gyp", "indian-giver", or "nigger-rig".
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoEXCEPT THAT I WASN'T USING IT AS A PEJORATIVE. Jesus fucking christ, this isn't "PC" this is just stupid.
- jasongullickson 17y agoSubmitting our latest film to IMDB: http://2soc.net/americancafe http://2soc.net/americancafe
- aboodman 17y agochrome extensions.... still.
- Derferman 17y agoA Python compiler using Flex, Bison and C++.
- meastham 17y agoIs this for CS164 at Berkeley? It sounds like the 164 project.
- Derferman 17y agoYep, Hilfinger is teaching the class this semester.
- david927 17y agoEmail me (or better yet, put some sort of contact in your profile). I'd like to talk to you about something.
- clusterfu_k 17y agoare you gonna post the code on the web at any point?
- Derferman 17y agoProbably not, simply because it is a project for a class.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoPacking to drive from Los Angeles to San Jose tomorrow. Spending the weekend watching friends' movies at Cinequest film festival. Also meeting with a friend in SJ about a facebook app idea we've been kicking around forever.
- trevorturk 17y agoWorking on my web based jukebox project: http://github.com/trevorturk/kzak http://github.com/trevorturk/kzak I'm dropping Bundler support right now because it's still broken in so many ways ;(
- ax0n 17y agoI'm actually poring over the list of projects that I'd like to get done one of these days, seeing if there's anything I can get some traction on with just an hour or two of work. I should be sleeping. I have a job interview in 8 hours. Well, by "job interview" I mean I'm talking to yet another headhunter. Mostly to satisfy the unemployment benefit requirement that I meet with at least 3 companies per week. I really don't feel like doing mid-term contract work without benefits.
- spoonyg 17y agotrying to make my way to Brussels, stuck overnight in Chicago due to a maintenance issue followed by a domestic dispute followed by over the maximum time for the crew.
- patrickgzill 17y agoStarting an artisan-bread "sponge" which is a starter for the bread I hope to bake tomorrow (have started trying to teach myself to cook/bake). With cooking, you can pretty much cover yourself if you don't do something right; baking is much more of a "discipline"... Hacker wise, thinking about ways to use Twitter and Facebook after listening to the recent Mixergy interview about it (Vanderchuyk? I think). I have a friend with a profitable site but it has stagnated and he has asked me to think about ways to improve it.
- papa 17y agoFilling out paperwork to commit to more bandwidth from our colocation facility as the monthly overages are getting high. Guess you gotta spend money to make money :-|
- cperciva 17y agoJust spent 2 hours rehearsing the Verdi Requiem. Next up is probably looking at a FreeBSD Errata Notice.
- aneesh 17y agoJust got back from the YC meetup in Seattle!
- dylanz 17y agoWas running database migrations. I'm now rolling back.
- farnsworth 17y agoWriting a Python photomosaic generator, and an iPhone app for my university bus system (iPhone apps seem to be popular tonight).
- jrockway 17y agoI'm writing a local HTTP proxy that connects to a remote JAWs [1] server, so that users behind a proxy that blocks proxy requests can still get to an unfiltered Internet. [1] http://github.com/jrockway/jaws http://github.com/jrockway/jaws Entities that think they can censor the Internet amuse me.
- damovisa 17y agoContinuing to hack away at my Footy Tipping site... the start of the season is casting demonic shadows over my shoulder...
- marcamillion 17y agoTrying to deal with hotel issues that come up at the 11th hour of negotiations for my 'Rails 3 on the Beach' event I am hosting in Jamaica in August. Things never go as planned...I know computers can be difficult to deal with some times, but people are even more unpredictable.
- gradschool 17y agotrying a programming puzzle on rosettacode http://rosettacode.org/wiki/24_game/Solve http://rosettacode.org/wiki/24_game/Solve
- stevoo 17y agoWorking on my online game. Hopefully it will be more in a playable condition soon enough !
- andrewf 17y agoI'm going to see if I can make zlib a little faster with some SSE intrinsics.
- psawaya 17y agoPlaying around with streaming video and Adobe Stratus, and contemplating making my own Chatroulette-like site. Let me know how well it (doesn't) work: http://cam-mash.appspot.com/listen http://cam-mash.appspot.com/listen
- dimarco 17y agoI'm in the process of leaving my job to start my first company, so my time tonight is split between writing wiki articles for my soon-to-be-ex coworkers and creating a minimally viable product.
- xnxn 17y agoHey, me too. It's my last day. It's way out of my comfort zone, but I realized if I don't take these risks now, I never will. I'm oscillating between excited and horrified. Best of luck to you.
- jkaljundi 17y agohttp://emp.ly/ http://emp.ly/ - a job posting and sharing tool for hiring via social networks. P.S. Don't forget: It's the last few days to apply 4 many startup incubators: http://shrt.st/cs7 http://shrt.st/cs7 (NYC Seedstart, Openfund, i/o ventures, Sproutbox, YC). Great chance to learn from best of the best. Also let me know if I have missed any from the list.
- krikor 17y agoFinishing up a few homework assignments then keep on teaching myself Lisp. I probably should learn a bit more LaTeX at the rate i'm inserting equations in Google docs though.
- bch 17y agoJust finished plugging memory leaks.
- RevRal 17y agoLearning to use Joomla.
- ApolloRising 17y agoWorking on chapter two of a book I am writing on how to increase conversion
- dangrossman 17y agoWriting copy for webpages of a service that helps ecommerce sites with high chargeback rates reduce fraud.
- akkartik 17y agoCopy for my current project: http://readwarp.com http://readwarp.com. I'm trying to come up with three short sentences for the front page to describe a) What it is, b) What it can do for you, c) What you should do next. If you can figure out what it does, you tell me :)
- char 17y agoTonight's projects included A/B testing, practicing piano, and making a delicious sausage pizza. I'm currently considering jumping on the Feynman diagrams posted by dwwoelfel, because I kind of miss doing them.
- gabea 17y agoI am working on a fantasy sports business. To be specific, this evening of work had to do not with building features but with actually mending relationships busted up by good ole email miscommunication. My advice is to say what you have to say on the phone or in person. Leave emotional discussions off of paper/email.
- Huppie 17y agoI hope to finish the Rails Tutorial (http://www.railstutorial.org/ http://www.railstutorial.org/) and then begin reading (and experimenting with) Agile Web Developing with Rails (http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-Programmers/ http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Web-Development-Rails-Programmer...).
- DCoder 17y agoReverse engineering a C++ game and patching it. The usual thing fans do to fix their favourite broken games :)
- nose 17y agoWatching some cloudera videos. http://www.cloudera.com/videos http://www.cloudera.com/videos
- rms 17y agoLive jazz hip-hop at a local bar, no cover
- jbm 17y agoBuilding a hotel site. Fixing some irritating join statements when searching by station name (it's for Tokyo).
- rdj 17y agoMy project: a "Foursquare meets Mafia Wars" game. You claim a real location, name it and defend it. Generate virtual currency over time and spend it on weapons. The code is complete and the family will be running some tests this weekend. Next, we will invite a few friends, get some feedback and figure out the next steps.
- Mc_Big_G 17y agoInteresting. I had a flash of real violence breaking out over the game.
- meastham 17y agoThe serial interface for the MIPS microprocessor that I am going to be spending the rest of the semester implementing on an FPGA.
- phaedrus 17y agoWriting a distributed control system in Io for my robot I'll take to the Sparkfun UAV competition.
- marze 17y agoPatent office action response.
- harisenbon 17y agoNot yet night here, but I'm just finishing writing up a heat-mapping multi-user system for work. I should also be working on 10 other programming projects that are due by april 1st, and 2 other personal projects as well, but don't seem to have the time nor inclination. I think I want to go with MikeMacMan's suggestion and drink. =)
- sketerpot 17y agoWinning National Novel Writing Month. I know that NaNoWriMo is in November, but I reserve the right to change February into another November in my personal timeline. I just have 618 words left. I've never written anything longer than about twenty pages before, and no fiction, so this was really a new and exciting experience for me. To my surprise, the book is actually pretty fun to read; I was expecting it to suck. I didn't know that any of this was even possible for me. This really has been an amazing month, and I look forward to doing it again when the official November comes around. (On a more nerdy note, none of the existing word processors really felt right to me, so I'm using a text format of my own devising, a python script to convert it into TeX with the memoir document class, and emacs. And org-mode to handle the story notes. It's remarkably pleasant, and it was a fun way of procrastinating. Much like writing this post.)
- sshumaker 17y agoTry Scrivener. http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
- sketerpot 17y agoI hear that Scrivener is good, but I don't always use a mac, and I'm a starving college student. I like having something free that I can use over SSH in a pinch.
- recurser 17y agoGood for you :) please post it when it's done. I got a chuckle out of the python/Tex thing - I was chatting with a friend recently about how we both want to start writing, but none of the writing apps feel right, if only there was a markdown-simple native mac app that would spit out latex, etc etc. We ended up agreeing we'd probably spend more time on the app than actually writing - kudos on doing both.
- sketerpot 17y agoI think you're overestimating how long it would take to get something usable put together, if you're only trying to make it usable by you. It took me about one hour to write the python scripts, and another hour to learn the appropriate LaTeX document class, and then I just opened up Aquamacs and started typing. (A nice advantage of this is that I programmed it to tell me how far I've gotten on my daily word goals. I don't know any word processor that does exactly this, and it's really handy.)
- acl 17y agoCreating fixture data for an old project with no test coverage.
- savant 17y agoFixing stupidity, tagging plugins for the cakephp framework.
- dzlobin 17y agoSeriosuly using cakephp? .......why?!
- odajay 17y agoWorking on the new financial reporting requirements and preparing my financial courses startup.
- lindelof 17y agoA building thermal performance model written in Octave/MATLAB.
- s3b 17y agoplaying around with android
- natep 17y agoThis thread looks pretty crowded already, but I'll throw this in anyways. I'm adding a few screenshots to my part of my team's presentation. We have a program review tomorrow (today). My project: http://cusat.cornell.edu/violet/ http://cusat.cornell.edu/violet/
- siculars 17y agobuilding riak on a couple ubuntu 9.10 virtual servers. checking mem usage n 32bit vs 64bit for a new project. riak > node.js > jquery.
- dawson 17y agoPreparing for admissions interview.
- dacort 17y agoBacking out the latest changes we spent the week building because it "wasn't right".
- ashleyw 17y agoBuilding a barebones game framework for HTML5 Canvas. Or at least, decoupling the reusable pieces of code from a game I've been building.
- jdoliner 17y agoA raytracer as part of a class project.
- NickPollard 17y agoRaytracers are fun. Tonight I'm hopefully going to start threading my (slow) real-time raytracer. I've never done threading before, and I'm very interested in seeing how the performance plays out, what strategy I should use to optimize cache usage and generally getting stuck in with what has always been an interesting topic to me.
- menomnon 17y agoAs part of writing my first Thunderbird addon, started in the way I usually do by doing a demo. Setting up the parallel dev profile was a little tedious and is not explained in the documentation. I wanted to get actual messages into the dev version (because I'll need them) and ended up flying blind (but correctly) by simply copying the right files from out of the default profile into dev. The exercise itself was very fast - which was nice. There were a number of places where one could go subtly wrong and I managed to miss them all and at the first pass. Which was even more encouraging. Now I have to grit my teeth a bit and dig into the Thunderbird API to accomplish my real goal. What I do now know is the landscape.
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- david927 17y agoA better database.
- zefhous 17y agoJust made a little jQuery plugin: http://github.com/zef/jquery_form_toggle http://github.com/zef/jquery_form_toggle It makes it easy to show and hide elements based on the state of a checkbox, radio button, or select menu. Demo: http://madebykiwi.com/files/jquery_form_toggle/ http://madebykiwi.com/files/jquery_form_toggle/ I'd be surprised if there isn't something like this out there already, but I couldn't find one. If you have a suggestion for a better name, I'd be happy to hear it.
- cubicle67 17y agochide? It's a real word, but also mix of checkbox and hide.
- snikolov 17y agoSignals and Systems problem set http://mit.edu/6.003/S10/www/handouts/hw3.pdf http://mit.edu/6.003/S10/www/handouts/hw3.pdf
- Lazlo_Nibble 17y agoCoverscans, coverscans, coverscans.
- iamwil 17y agoWorking on getting data to be more easily imported for http://graphbug.com http://graphbug.com
- kogir 17y agoReal C# support for Thrift, consisting of WCF metadata providers and channels.
- X-Istence 17y agoWorking on my Google AppEngine based website. I hope to launch by the end of this month.
- pmjordan 17y agoI was sleeping when this was posted, but now I'm working on a consulting project (embedding an existing game into OpenSocial and Facebook apps). Once I finish with that for the week, I'll carry on building the prototype for our SSD-based I/O caching driver. I'm hoping we can finally make that do something useful over the weekend.
- mcxx 17y agoA web interface for MongoDB.
- Gertm 17y agoTrying to get the hang of the Furnace webframework.
- jparicka 17y agoLooking into memcache http://bit.ly/ceIa49 http://bit.ly/ceIa49 Beepl's (django) eating up 400MB of mem/apache process. :-(
- jparicka 17y agoBtw, it worked - beepl's now fast like a rocketship!
- cosmok 17y agoAdding more polls into my photo poll page @ http://i-am-bored.in/polls/ http://i-am-bored.in/polls/
- cookiecaper 17y agoThe baby my wife had on Tuesday, I guess. We just got home.
- Pistos2 17y agoCongratulations. :)
- splat 17y agoWriting a lab report for my lab class. I'm using electron diffraction to measure the Planck constant.
- tcarnell 17y agoNOW: Working to pay rent TONIGHT: Adding graphical reporting into Femtoo.com (to view graphs of change history of trackers)...and then getting drunk.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoEditing a new interview I did earlier in the evening with Steve Welch on getting traction. Hoping to upload and post it today.
- chronomex 17y agoI'm setting up a development environment to work on writing a FTP search engine tomorrow afternoon. It's a new laptop (new to me, Thinkpad T30), so it's not all perl'd up yet.
- egor83 17y agoWorking on my word-learning application. Partly to learn Dutch (though the program can be reused for any pair of languages, with some features (irregular verb forms) making it more suitable for Germanic languages - Dutch, English, German etc), partly to get experience with C#.
- Tichy 17y agoFinishing touches on porting my chinese checkers game to Android. It is mostly an exercise in writing a HTML 5 app for Android, as I don't expect many people to be interested in chinese checkers. Then, start working on the next Android app.
- Mc_Big_G 17y agoWorking on a quickie startup using a domain name I've had since '03 which is foreverlist.com. It's a paid classified ads site where, for $5, you can list an ad with unlimited images that never expires and which you can change to anything at any time. So, as an example, you have a classic car which just sits in your garage collecting dust. You're somewhat interested in selling it, but only for the right price, and definitely don't want to fuss with relisting the ad every 30 or 60 days like ebay, craigslist or kijiji. So, one day you sell the car and then want to sell your snowblower. Just change the listing. Cheaper than ebay's fees by far, less hassle than CL or kijiji. The $5 keeps out the spammers and scammers. Yeah, I know, it's extremely saturated but like I said, it's a quickie.
- thenduks 17y agoBeen working on a new bug/ticket tracker for a while... Continuing to do so :)
- kylebragger 17y agoI'm working on Forrst.
- vault_ 17y agoWorking on an experiment for my psychology class. It's fun because I made it a web application, and it's been a good chance to mess with Couchdb. (project is here(http://github.com/vault/Word-Superiority-Effect http://github.com/vault/Word-Superiority-Effect), it's pretty crappy currently)
- abyssknight 17y agoThis Friday night, I'll be working on getting the Orlando Defcon Group together at Stardust Coffee and Video @ 7pm. This will be the first time the group has convened since it was marked inactive in 2006.
- wglb 17y agoWorking through pickaxe ruby, tinkering with lisp program to decode pcap files and explain packets/protocols, keeping an eye on the Cluster, figuring out xen.
- rmanocha 17y agoLearning Clojure (by reading Programming Clojure) - oh and trying to setup VimClojure and failing miserably (file detection is working, but everything else including syntax highlighting & indentation isn't).
- gtani 17y ago- ask on freenode #clojure, the guy who wrote vimClojure hangs out pretty frequently - the suggested "least stress" alternatives are netBeans/enclojure or emacs via ELPA/swank-clojure
- Semiapies 17y agoA designer friend and I will likely play with a redesign of some mutual friends' university club's website. EDIT: And then I notice that this was posted yesterday. :)
- headShrinker 17y agoThere is a merge lane right out my window in NY. Horns honk all day, due to narrowly missed disasters, and occationally theres some contact. Soooooo, I pointed a webcam out my window and created the http://WorstMergeLaneEver.com http://WorstMergeLaneEver.com
- ElllisD 17y agoSearching my email / Paypal accounts for orphaned / unlogged receipts.
- wendroid 17y agoWorking on our backup path. I run some Limbo[1] code using Windows Scheduled Tasks. This copies the contents of My Documents and Desktop (or wherever) to a Venti[2] server running on Linux on the LAN. The storage arenas of that server are extracted in 500Mb chunks and encrypted, along with the scores for accessing them, using GPG[3]. These are then copied offsite, via the internet and bundled into DVD sized groups and burned to optical when appropriate. As Venti arenas are append only this is minimum transfer, secure backup. That's obviously just the Windows machiens that use Limbo. Unix likes have native clients. Our Venti store also contains data from other soruces such as the website and imap servers. Though it might make sense to separate them out, that's the decisions I'm working on as I go along. I would also like to find an encryption method that uses fixed size chunks so I can upload only the appended data. That's something I need to look more into. I know they are around somewhere. [1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ [2] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html [3] http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gnupg.org/
- jasonkester 17y agoThe Plan: Finish documenting the little i18n library for .NET that I built last week and release it open source. The Reality: It's 95 degrees here in Cartagena and my fingers are sweating onto the keyboard. Cuba Libres sound like a much more viable option.
- mgz 17y agoWorking on multiplayer Minesweeper, web-based: http://sweepminer.com http://sweepminer.com